Emergency Facebook 3.1.1 Update Fixes Contact Syncing Issues, But still No Push Sounds

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Facebook 3.1 update was just released yesterday. Less than 24 hours later Facebook is able to release an emergency 3.1.1 update that fixes contact syncing bugs. Great job to Apple for getting this important update out so fast.

The emergency update fixes the annoying problem of Facebook pictures replaced by your own contact’s pictures. It also fixed a problem that caused other apps that access your iPhone’s address book to stop working.

However push notification is still crippled with no vibrate or sound alert as new notifications arrive. Hopefully this issue will be addressed soon in the next update.

Although Facebook is able to get the bug fixing update out so fast, it still aggravates many for a company as big as Facebook to release a major update with so many problems. Perhaps the new iPhone Facebook App team that replaced the revolutionary Joe Hewitt, who quit iPhone app design due to dissatisfactions with App Store policies, is just not that good with mobile apps.

Hopefully future major Facebook app updates will arrive with less significant problems than the Facebook 3.1 update. Otherwise folks will meet new facebook updates with distrust, unwilling to update it until everyone says the update is safe to install.

This is an article by The Apps Machine